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Down memory lane: Reason Factory Sound Bank patch designing

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I just stumbled on some file archives where I kept the last version of my patches for Reason 6 (if I'm not mistaken) Factory Sound Bank. Then thought it would be fun to check if any were still listed in the first group of patches, when we create a device. To my surprise, some familiar names still show up in Reason 12, eh! Smooth Wobbler! Epic Chip Lead! Artwist Bass and Chip Arpeggio! and some of my favorite Combinator (v1) ones are still included too, nice! :) Needless to say that we kinda had a theme going for that FSB,  that's why there were so many "wobble", "dirty" and "chip-tune'ish" patches ;) Some of the more odd Combinator ones don't make any sense nowadays because of all the new Rack Extensions that keep coming out, especially from Reason Studios. Ok, now... I'm trying to think what else might be in there... hmmm... I remember doing some for Parsec (Phrap One Bass and Phrap Two Bass comes to mind) ...and Complex-1 (Panflute, C...

Down memory lane: Trackers, Trax/Demo Scenes and my first MIDI Controller Keyboard

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Note: This was going to be a post about the new M-Audio Axiom 2nd Gen controller keyboards ... and, after some sentences, I realized it wasn't going to happen as soon as I first envisioned... oh well, better change the post title and move on... :P ... As you may already know, I've been accidentally collecting more MIDI Keyboard controllers than I ever wished for. Buying new, not selling the old because there's always an excuse use for it. It all started when I bought my (really mine) first "real" (as opposed to my Sinclair ZX Spectrum ) Personal Computer (I had used PCs for a while at this point: 8086, i286, i386sx, i386 based, but none were mine), a brand new D-I-Y i486DX2 @66MHz based PC with (at the time) 4Mb (a few years after, upgraded to 32Mb) of RAM. It had a Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 because I've always hoped to use a PC to generate sound through synthesis using math (i.e. DSP algoritms), besides taking advantage of the digital s...